If you were to choose your favourite three magazines ever, what would they be and why? Would it be LXF66 because of the shiny silver cover, LXF41 for my excellent AMD64 piece (*cough!*), LXF01 because it's worth a packet on Ebay, or LXF70 because you're always looking forward to the next issue?

This is quite a serious question, deep down. If we get enough responses we'll be able to see what we should be doing more of!

Ouch - that's a difficult question. I get something from just about every issue. But glancing along the shelf in the office, the following issues stand out marginally from the others...

LXF05 - best cover ever IMHO. Tux surfing on a wave of ethernet cables. Dunno what the cover artist was on, but I want some...

LXF06 - My first taste of SuSE. I've tried other distros both before and since, but SuSE is the one I keep going back to.

LXF54 - Lots of goodies... continuation of Troutwars, my first taste of Audacity, and Knoppix on the cover disk, which about a month later saved my bacon when I had a hard drive start to die on me - booting the machine from Knoppix enabled me to archive pretty much all of the data before the disk finally died.

Like I say, these are marginal choices - I think all the issues have been good in one way or another, and if I were to trawl through them again in a week's time I'd probably pick three different ones.

Linux Answers - gave me the knowledge and confidence to attempt my first installation, also chock full of useful tutorials.

LXF07 - I can recall the Go Faster article without much effort, so it must have made an impression.

LXF53 - The Ultimate Linux Box item was interesting and gave me plenty of ideas for building my own 64-bit box, even if it did make me wonder how the LXF crew manage their expenses.

There are other issues I have liked quite a lot and picking only three seems a little artificial, picking particular articles might have been better, but then reviewing 70 magazines to find everything I liked would be more than a little time consuming.

I'd be hard pushed to pick the best three. Some of the PHP and PERL tutorials have forced me into a typing frenzy after a Synaptic "install me" session. LXF was good, it means I now have 69 copies of LXF and am committed for another 13!